At Bow Street, on Tuesday, the Magistrates were occupied nearly
three hours in disposing of cases of drunkenness, upwards of sixty in
number. The defendants were principally women. The fines paid for drunkenness last year at this office amounted to several hundred pounds.
Another letter was on Sunday thrown into the Queen's carriage by a foreigner. The offender was immediately taken into custody by the Police, and removed to the Station in Gardiner's Lane ; where he was kept until his letter had been examined by one of the officers of the Household. Finding that it contained simply a harmless petition, the officer sent directions to the Police that the foreigner should be admo- nished as to his future conduct and discharged.
The liaise of Ashley and Son, bankers and army agents, in Regent Street, was announced yesterday. It is said that their liabilities do not exceed 30,0004
During the rehearsal of a new ballet at Drury Lane Theatre, on Saturday, a holy, a friend of l'an A mburgh's, bad permission to go be- hind the scenes to see the lions. On view ing them, one of the animals seized her by the skull, and terribly lacerated it ; so much so that it was completely laid open. We regret to state that the unfortunate lady was taken home in the most pitiable condition.—slieroiafs Pest.
There is no truth in the statement that one of the tigers exhibiting at St. James's Theatre ate up the panther last week.—GloGe.
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